1976-80 by W.A. Fairhurst & Partners with Cementation Construction Ltd and Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co. as contractors. Brought into service 1981. A rather inelegant through-steel-truss construction with fabricated box chords. Three unequal spans with a total length of 360 metres. 4000 metric tonnes. Cost £4.9 million. The height of the bridge and its design were dictated by the shipping regulations for the river which insist that the river is kept passable for sea-going ships.

1979. Consultant engineers Ove Arup & Partners. Notable for its elegance. Parabolic reinforced-concrete trusses carrying a curved deck across the Ouseburn, not far from the earlier Rail Viaduct.

Rapid-transit electric system, based on the old North Tyneside Loop and its South Tyneside counterpart. The Tyneside Metropolitan Railway Act received Royal Assent in 1973. Massive engineering works were involved - tunnelling under Newcastle for lines and stations, strengthening C19 viaducts and 41km of existing permanent way. 12.8km of new track was laid, new viaducts and stations. First section opened in 1981. Extension to Newcastle Airport in 1991. Extension to Sunderland in ?. Consultant architects were Faulkner Brown Hendy Watkinson. The scheme for station design used white vitreous enamel panels for internal surfaces and high-quality synthetic stone flooring. Externally, chocolate brown and red bricks were used, ribbed concrete, tubular supports and plastic-covered steel canopies for the bus-stop suburban stations. Executive architects L.J. Couves & Partners designed the underground stations and those between Jesmond and Gateshead Stadium and St. James to Manors. Waring & Netts designed Byker to Chillingham Road and Tyne Dock to South Shields. Ainsworth Spark Associates designed the four interchanges - Four Lane Ends, Regent Centre, Gateshead and Heworth and the lines from West Jesmond to Tynemouth and to the Airport.

By the end of the 19th century the school governors were of the opinion that the existing school building at Ryehill, shown in Image 3 were adversely affecting education of pupils given a certain area of forlornness to its work. Pupils were staying in the school 3 years or less and only 10% went on to university. The old buildings were dark cramped and had inadequate outside facilities.
The move to a new site in the up and coming suburb of Jesmond, would allow a new building to be constructed on a larger scale with ample external spacing and was one of the more farsighted decisions made in the history of the school.
The school was designed by Sir Edwin Cooper 1874-1942, shown in Image 1 a notable and prolific Architect of the Edwardian period. Originally based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire he opened a London office in 1895 and had several successful commission including the Port of London Authority Headquarters, Marylebone Town Hall and Lloyds Register of Shipping.
Construction of the new school began in 1905 with a budget of £20,000. The lowest tender was £21,000 and an early discovery of unchartered sewers on the site meant the building had to be extensively realigned. Governors sold the old school to Newcastle Council for £14,000 after some hard bargaining and were encouraged to complete all phases of the new school in one go. Costs rose steeply from £25,000 in 1905 to £44,000 in 1906 and £78,000 when all the buildings and fields were complete in 1907.
Extra funds were raised by taking loans on the new building using the girls’ school fund raising fees and arguing with the Board of Schools Inspectors of the maximum salary to staff, raised in 1907 from £250 per annum to £300 per annum.
The new school was a robust classical design with strong symmetry around the central axis of main entrance and hall. The adoption of widely spaced teaching blocks with linking corridors allowed plenty of opportunities for natural light and has proved versatile over the years, for extension and adaptation. The school was constructed of high quality materials, Leicester red brick with fine mortar joints, natural stone and natural slate roof. The stone carved details are particularly crisp and well executed (Turner 2017).

1907 by Sir Edwin Cooper. Friendly neo-early-Georgian. Brick with stone dressings. Various ranges connected by colonnaded galleries. Central clock turret {1}. The clock turret was a gift of the Old Boys' Association. It is on the roof of the school hall and was installed in 1909. The clock was made by William Potts & Sons Ltd of Leeds and the firm still maintains it. It was converted to automatic electric winding in 1972. Before then it was hand wound every week {2}. The Royal Grammar School was founded in the C16 in the grounds of St. Nicholas churchyard. In 1607 it moved into a disused chapel in the grounds of the Hospital of Virgin Mary on Westgate Road. Forth House was used as a school for 4 years. The school then moved to Charlotte Square until 1870. A new school was built at Rye Hill. The Royal Grammar School moved into a large terraced house, No. 3 St. Thomas Place in Jesmond in 1897. It later moved to No. 1 Jesmond High Terrace. The present building was built in 1905 and opened in January 1907. There are two columns south of the main entrance. These were salvaged from The Hospital of Virgin Mary by John Dobson. He put them in his garden at New Bridge Street. When his house became the Oxford galleries dance hall in 1925, the columns were moved to the grammar school. In the 1930s a gym and swimming baths were built. The pupils were evacuated to Penrith in 1939 and the school building was used for civil defence {3}. Anglo Baroque in detail.
The swimming pool and its extensions was recorded ahead of demolition (2017).

1987 by George Oldham, City Architect. A 'high-tech' building. Blue and grey tubes and glass, with internal balconies so that the central space is top-lit. Interesting stained glass in the gable by Susan Bradbury in a diagonal pattern of graduated colour. There are stunning new blocks by RMJM on the 1960s site.

Newcastle Polytechnic was renamed the University of Northumbria at Newcastle in 1992. The Polytechnic was founded in 1969 incorporating the Rutherford College of Technology. Several new buildings were added to the old inherited properties. The Ellison Building, Library and Lipman Building were built for Rutherford College of Technology 1949-65 by George Kenyon, City Architect. Intended to be part of an educational precinct east and south of the Civic Centre, linked by walkways with the central shopping area. McCombie - a quadrangle of plain elevations of varying heights, faced in Portland stone, slate or brown brick. Entry from the north-west by a broad open passage between pilotis. On the diagonal path across the quadrangle, a sculpture by Nico Wilderberg, 2007, five herm-like figures.

1980-2 by Faulkner Brown Hendy Watkinson Stonor. Dark red brick, its proportions reflecting adjacent Carlton Terrace. Long slit windows set diagonally to filter the light. Opened 1982, officially opened 29th June 1983 by Duke of Northumberland. Has space for 700,000 volumes and 1000 readers. The law section and Medical section are housed seperately.

1955 similar style to Stephenson Building (HER 9768). The Cassie Building was constructed in 1955 by Edwards and Manby. It was part of the masterplan of W B Edwards and Sir Howard Robinson for post World War II Kings College, which was to become the University of Newcastle. The four storey T shaped building is made of red brick with stone details, such as the restrained, plain porch which projects at the main entrance. The appearance of the entrance front is dominated by the large windows which rise up to the second floor level. Named in 1970-1971 after W F Cassie, Professor of Civil Engineering 1943-70.

1951 by Edwards & Manby, the first building of the master plan. Classical proportions, four storeys, with recessed central entrance framed by dark columns, which contrast with the grey brick. Officially opened 28th November 1951 by Duke of Edinburgh. Named after George Stephenson. Houses the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Marine Engineering and others.

Post-war development, including additions to the Schools of Art and Architecture by Sheppard, Robson & Partners. Completed in stages, all opened in 1968. Rear sharp edges of alternate bands of brick and glass high over the lower link to the Art School. All in the same red brick, enlivened by the use of recessed external galleries and occasional higher windows of taller laboratories. Despite good clean lines, these buildings lack character. The Geography department occupies the Daysh Building named after GHJ Daysh, Professor of Geography 1943-1966. Merz Court completed 1964-5 officially opened 7th May 1965 by PM Harold Wilson. Houses Departments of Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and the School of Mathematics.